Daily Archives: January 19, 2013

Thieu angered by interruption at daughter’s wedding 40 years ago today (1973)


Video: Thieu wedding interrupted (at 9:27)

(Friday, January 19, 1973; during the Vietnam War) — South Vietnamese President Thieu became angry today when Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker demanded to see him just as Thieu gave his daughter away in a wedding. Bunker wanted to communicate the latest letter from U.S. President Richard Nixon pressuring Thieu to agree to a peace agreement.